Sermon Tone Analysis

*Date:*      16th May 2007                                                                        (Wednesday PM)                                                                                *Ref:* A0310

*Place:     Kambah P.S.*

*Title: Yom Yerushalyim*

*Text:        *& Ezekiel 36:22-24

 

*Illust:     *On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved the proclamation, declaring the establishment of the State of Israel.

The new state was recognised that night by the United States and three days later by the USSR.

/Extract:/ “ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

– The prophetic hour glass was turned over

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I.                   The Descendants of Jacob

!! A.               God’s Chosen

i.

The plan & purpose of God has always been very specific, detailed and under total control.

The establishment of a blessed people that would occupy the area of the Middle East known as Israel.

~~ From the promise first made to Abram

         Genesis 12:1-2 1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

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            The promise of a nation, a people confirmed on a number of occasions:

         Genesis 15:5  Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.”

And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” (NKJV)

         Genesis 22:17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

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            Confirmed to Jacob Abraham’s grandson, whose name was changed to Israel

         Genesis 28:13-14 13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south;.... (NKJV)

         Genesis 32:26-28  26And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”

But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” 27So He said to him, “What is your name?”

He said, “Jacob.”

28And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

(NKJV)

ii.

A nation selected for a purpose.

Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

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         Genesis 22:18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

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         Genesis 28:14b ...  and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

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iii.